Zambia striker Barbra Banda and Malawi’s Chawinga sisters Tabitha and Temwa were named at the five-strong shortlist to grow to be African Ladies’s Footballer of the Time.

Nigeria goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie and Morocco ahead Sanaa Mssoudy spherical out the contenders.

The winner can be introduced on the Confederation of African Soccer (Caf) Awards in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday, 16 December.

Temwa Chawinga and Banda had been the supremacy two scorers in The us’s Nationwide Ladies’s Football League (NWSL) this season, with the Malawi ahead netting 21 targets to Banda’s 17.

Alternatively, the Zambian bagged the winner within the championship ultimate to fireplace Orlando Satisfaction to the NWSL identify, and was once voted the BBC’s Ladies’s Footballer of the Time endmost month.

Lyon’s Tabitha Chawinga led the scoring charts within the French supremacy aviation endmost season, month Paris FC’s Nnadozie was once named because the section’s absolute best keeper.

AS FAR’s Mssoudy received the award for the most efficient participant on the Caf Ladies’s Champions League, even if she needed to accept a runners-up medal as AS FAR had been crushed via TP Mazembe within the ultimate.